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I've had this at a restaurant and I couldn't believe how good it tasted.
Ohh which restaurant??
Wow, I just realized what the name of the place was: https://www.foragedeatery.com
It's in Baltimore, MD, USA. The item was seasonal, obviously.
Absolutely added to my bucket list. Thank you!
Blew my mind when I first had it. I obviously ate portabella from the grocery store, and puffballs a couple times. But when my partner found a bunch of chickens, it really changed my perspective on how mushrooms even could taste. Really kicked my foraging into overdrive.
Yes! Probably my favorite forage item, lucky enough tonhave it grow fairly frequently in the woods behind my parents house
Oh wow, that's so lucky. I've been on the hunt for ages. Pawpaws on the other hand, it's like an orchard out there.
Appalachians?
Yessum! I have like 15 in my yard.
Wow, that's awesome! Now I want some paw paw bread
Do you do anything to improve pollination? There are massive groves all around me, but since they are clonal colonies, they don't self-pollinate, and I always have to hunt around for whatever groves actually got pollinated. I've read that some people will spray trees with fish emulsion to lure in flies.
The patches I go to have grown big enough to pollinate among them. I guess eventually an "outsider" comes in and does it's thing. But yeah some people will hang bags of meat etc. I've never tried it.
Are these home growable successfully?
Apparently. You can get syringes of the spores and plugs you put in trees. Idk if they work
This is a mushroom I want to learn to recognised!
I have the books by Sam Thayer and they've really upped my game.
Good for you but I'm in Europe. So I need to find other pertinent ressources.
I've had it a bunch of times and maybe I just haven't made it right or it was too mature, but I never enjoyed it too much. Oyster mushrooms, on the other hand.
When it's young, it's dripping wet when you cut it, and it cooks up really well. When it gets too old, it gets almost like an overcooked chicken breast texture. You also should cook it same day you get it, otherwise it will either dry out too much, if you store it in a too well ventilated space, or too slimy if you bag it.
Oh wow what a great find! I've yet to find this one myself but look very much forward to it! ๐